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Introducing AVG VIP: Matthew Simm
We at AVG pride ourselves on our Facebook community, which at nearly 700,000 members is one of the most active and helpful communities around. To recognize the people that are busy making the AVG community a great place to come and chat or get help for whatever you may need, we came up with our monthly Community [...]
Voice changer or voice charger?
This week, the AVG Mobilation™ research team found a new instance of malware named ‘Voice Changer’ in the Android market. Fortunately, after our Security research team reported this to Google. They suspended the app for violating the Android Market Developer Distribution Agreement. The developer’s page in the Android market looks like the following: The [...]
AVG Feedback Update: Week 4
1. AVG Security Toolbar log file Several AVG users reported high disk space usage by AVG Security toolbar log file. Also, users may note the vprot.exe process is taking more CPU time than usually when checking their Windows Task Manager. Should you face similar situation, please refer to this FAQ article to remove the large [...]
Voice changer or voice charger?
This week, the AVG Mobilation™ research team found a new instance of malware named ‘Voice Changer’ in the Android market. Fortunately, after our Security research team reported this to Google. They suspended the app for violating the Android Market Developer Distribution Agreement. The developer’s page in the Android market looks like the following: The [...]
Voice changer or voice charger?
This week, the AVG Mobilation™ research team found a new instance of malware named ‘Voice Changer’ in the Android market. Fortunately, after our Security research team reported this to Google. They suspended the app for violating the Android Market Developer Distribution Agreement. The developer’s page in the Android market looks like the following: The [...]
AVG Threat Report Q4 2011
Every quarter AVG publish our Quarterly Threat Report, an analysis and overview of the trending and emerging web threats that our Threat Labs Team have been dealing with over the last quarter. The data for the report is collected by AVG’s Threat Labs from the AVG Community Protection Network. It is an online neighborhood watch, [...]
AVG Threat Report Q4 2011
Every quarter AVG publish our Quarterly Threat Report, an analysis and overview of the trending and emerging web threats that our Threat Labs Team have been dealing with over the last quarter. The data for the report is collected by AVG’s Threat Labs from the AVG Community Protection Network. It is an online neighborhood watch, [...]
AVG Threat Report Q4 2011
Every quarter AVG publish our Quarterly Threat Report, an analysis and overview of the trending and emerging web threats that our Threat Labs Team have been dealing with over the last quarter. The data for the report is collected by AVG’s Threat Labs from the AVG Community Protection Network. It is an online neighborhood watch, [...]
Introducing AVG VIP: Barry Eyt
We at AVG pride ourselves on our Facebook community, which at nearly 700,000 members is one of the most active and helpful communities around. To recognize the people that are busy making the AVG community a great place to come and chat or get help for whatever you may need, we came up with our monthly Community [...]
AVG Web threat weekly update: Week 3
1. Just in time for Tax Season Starting today we began receiving emails from INTUIT at a bankofamerica.com email address (it’s spoofed). These emails notify the recipient of a problem between the IRS and Social Security and ask him to “use the following link” to review the information. The link leads to a Blackhole Exploit [...]